Background
Brophy was born in Phoenix, Arizona and was one of seven children.
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Sally Brophy
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She was active in dramatics at Sacred Heart Convent in Menlo Park, California and attended College of New Rochelle. She studied at the Royal Academy in London, and then pursued a career on Broadway.
Career
Additional experience came from her work as a summer apprentice at Westport, Connecticut"s Theatre Guild. Brophie"s first break came when she worked in Private Lives with Tallulah Bankhead. In 1951 she was an understudy in Second Threshold.
In 1954–1955, she starred as the grown-up "Wendy" in Peter Pan.
The couple had two children. When Brophy retired from acting, the couple moved to Princeton, New Jersey.
She joined the faculty of Rider University (then Rider College) in nearby Lawrenceville, where she taught theater arts She also directed student productions at Princeton University.
She died in Princeton, New Jersey at the age of seventy-eight of non-Hodgkin"s lymphoma.
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